1668
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 128

10. The Commissioner shall, as soon as possible after the day of nomination aforesaid, provide printed voting-papers for the use of voters.

Such voting-papers shall be in the form set forth in the Third Schedule hereto, and shall contain the names of all candidates who have been duly nominated, arranged in the alphabetical order of their surnames, and adding their several Christian names, residences, and occupations.

11. The Commissioner shall transmit a sufficient number of such voting-papers to District Agents and Resident Agents of the Government Insurance Department throughout the colony, and to all Postmasters who are acting as Agents of such department, to be by them furnished to all voters who may apply for them. Voting-papers shall also be obtainable by voters on application at the Government Insurance Office, at Wellington.

12. The voter shall erase the names of the candidates for whom he does not desire to vote, and shall sign the voting-paper and add the number of his policy after such signature, in the presence of at least one witness (who shall sign his name and address), and send such paper by post, addressed to the Presiding Officer, Government Insurance Office, Wellington.

The voter must leave not more than three names unerased on the voting-paper, and the vote or votes shall be deemed to be given for the name or names left on the paper unerased. If more than three names are left on the voting-paper unerased it will be treated as informal.

13. If it should appear that a policy-holder, either in nominating a candidate, or giving his vote under these regulations, cannot state the number of his policy with certainty, or if in any other respect any nomination-paper or voting-paper does not fully comply with these regulations, or the form prescribed, the Presiding Officer shall not reject such nomination-paper or voting-paper if by any other means he is reasonably satisfied that the person nominating or voting is a policy-holder entitled to vote at the election.

14. Subject as aforesaid, no voting-paper shall be of any effect if it be not completed in accordance with these regulations, and no voting-paper shall be tendered to or received by the Presiding Officer after ten o'clock in the forenoon of the day appointed for the said election. No voting by proxy shall be allowed in any case.

15. At ten o'clock in the forenoon on the day of election the Presiding Officer shall, at the Government Insurance Office aforesaid, in presence of his Assistants, proceed to open and examine the voting-papers and to record the total number of votes respectively given for each candidate; and if it shall be found impossible to complete such examination on that day, then the same shall be continued on the next following day or days till finally completed.

16. After all the voting-papers duly received have been examined, the Presiding Officer, with the aid of his Assistants, shall ascertain from such papers the total number of votes for each candidate, rejecting all informal or incomplete papers, and shall thereupon declare the candidates who have received the greatest number of votes to be elected, and shall as soon as conveniently may be thereafter forward to the Colonial Treasurer a certificate in writing, stating the names of those candidates who have been elected; and the Colonial Treasurer shall forthwith cause notice of such election to be gazetted. Every such certificate and notice shall be final and conclusive on all persons concerned.

17. If it should happen that the total number of votes recorded for two or more candidates shall be equal, the Presiding Officer shall, in writing, notify the fact to the Governor, who may thereupon exercise the powers conferred on him by the ninth section of the said Act with respect to directors not elected.

18. The whole of the voting-papers received shall be securely kept by the Presiding Officer during the election, and, after such certificate as aforesaid has been given, shall be put into packets; any papers rejected as informal being put into a separate packet; and each such packet shall be sealed up securely and transmitted to the Colonial Treasurer, who may, within one calendar month after the issue of such certificate as aforesaid, cause the same to be entirely destroyed.

19. Neither the Presiding Officer nor either of his Assistants, nor any clerk or person employed by him or them, shall (except in discharge of his official duty) disclose for whom any person has voted or tendered his vote under these regulations either before or after the election is completed, or retain possession of or exhibit any voting-paper used at the election, or give any information to any person as to the existence or terms of any policy of life insurance mentioned or referred to in any way for the purposes of any election under these regulations. And if any person shall commit a breach of this regulation he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, to be recovered in the mode prescribed by the said Act. But nothing herein contained shall be deemed to forbid the disclosure of any fact, or the doing of any act hereby prohibited, if the same be required in obedience to the process of any Court of law.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS UNDER “THE NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT INSURANCE ASSOCIATION ACT, 1884.”

Notice is hereby given that the election of three directors to serve as members of the Board constituted under “The New Zealand Government Insurance Association Act, 1884,” will be held at Wellington, on Wednesday, the seventh day of January, 1885.

All nominations of candidates must be in the following form: [Here set out form prescribed by the regulations]. Such nominations must be sent by post, addressed to the Presiding Officer, or delivered, so addressed, at the Government Insurance Office, Wellington, so as to reach him before noon of the twentieth day of December, 1884. Voting-papers can be obtained, by policy-holders entitled to vote at the election, from the office of the Government Insurance Department, at Wellington, or from any District Agent or Resident Agent of such department, or at any post office agency of the said department.

Attention is called to the extracts from the Act at foot of this notice.

Dated this day of , 1884.

Presiding Officer.

N.B.—Any person, whether a policy-holder or not, shall be eligible for the office of director.—Section 16 of Act.

Every holder of a policy, if of full age, and insured under such policy for not less than one hundred pounds, and which has been in existence for six months, shall be qualified to vote at any election of a director, and shall have at each such election as many votes as there are candidates to be then elected, but shall not give more than one vote for any of such candidates.—Section 7 of Act.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
FORM OF NOMINATION-PAPER.

To the Presiding Officer for election of directors of the New Zealand Government Life Insurance Association, Wellington.

We, the undersigned, being each of full age and qualified to vote at elections of directors under “The New Zealand Government Life Insurance Association Act, 1884,” do hereby nominate* , of , as a candidate for the office of a director of the Government Life Insurance Association.

Dated this day of , 1884.

Holder of Policy No. .

Holder of Policy No. .

I hereby consent to this nomination.

Candidate.

• Name in full, and residence and occupation of candidate.

THIRD SCHEDULE.
FORM OF VOTING-PAPER.

Election to take place on the Seventh Day of January, 1885

NAMES of candidates for election to the office of director under “The New Zealand Government Life Insurance Association Act, 1884:”—

[Here insert names of persons nominated in alphabetical order.]

Name of voter in full: __

Address: __

Occupation: __

Number of policy:* __

Witness:

Signature: __

Residence: __

Occupation: __

N.B.—The voter must draw a line through the name of each candidate for whom he does not desire to vote.

Not more than three names are to be left unerased, or this paper will be invalid. He must fold the paper so as to show the address, and post the same to the Presiding Officer, Government Insurance Office, Wellington, so that it shall reach him before 10 a.m. of the day of election.

Every holder of a policy, if of full age, and insured under such policy for not less than one hundred pounds, and which has been in existence for six months, shall be qualified to vote at any election of a director, and shall have at each such election as many votes as there are candidates to be then elected, but shall not give more than one vote for any of such candidates.—Section 7 of Act.

No proxy shall be allowed at any election.—Section 8 of Act.

• The number of any policy qualifying to vote is sufficient.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

By Authority: GEORGE DIDSURY, Govt. Printer, Wellington.